This work originates from the need to develop an integrated dynamic model of negation in discourse that is adequate for understanding the role of negation in an extensive and complex piece of discourse.

Basic Concepts Approaches to Negation. Negation and Text World Theory Negation, Frame Semantics, and Schema Theory A Text World Model of Negation in Discourse: An Analysis Joseph Heller's Novel Catch-22 Conclusions Appendix: A Quantification of Negation in Catch-22

Provides an up-to-date critical review of negation and proposes a model that brings together the semantic, cognitive, and pragmatic features of negation, which are crucial for an understanding of its role in discourse.

The volumes presented in this series provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines that share a mutual interest in discourse -- be it prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, spoken versus written discourse, or other related topics. The problems posed by multi-sentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, while not always unique to discourse, are still sufficiently distinct as to benefit from the organized model of scientific interaction made possible by this series. Scholars working in the discourse area from the perspective of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnomethodology and the sociology of language, educational psychology (e.g., teacher/student interaction), the philosophy of language, computational linguistics, and related sub-areas are invited to submit manuscripts of monograph or book length. Edited collections of original papers resulting from conferences will also be considered.